Blaise Pascal Quotes

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.
Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.
Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.
He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.
Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.
If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Imagination decides everything.
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Blaise Pascal
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19 June, 1623
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19 August, 1662
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